[Front row from left] JCI Pearl President Chew Hooi Mei, Sg Pinang assemblywoman YB. Lim Siew Khim, State Youth and Sports, Women, Family and Community Development committee chairman YB. Chong Eng, Event Organising Chairperson Dean Lim posing for photos with members of the organising committee and sponsors after the flag off

[9 March 2014]

It was a sight to remember as a sea of pink flooded the Jalan Padang Kota Lama as the clock ticks toward flag off time for the inaugural JCI Pearl Women’s Run 2014.

Participants dressed in pink dri-fit jerseys thronged event site as early as 6am to “check in” for the run.

While they waited patiently to start the 6km race at 7.30am on Sunday, 9 March 2014 at Esplanade, the crowd participated in a 15 minute warming up session led by staff of Institute Sukan Negara [ISN] Penang.

Though organised for women in-conjunction with the annual International Women’s Day Celebration, there were quite a large group of men who also registered for the run and believe it or not, most of them were very supportive and also ran in the pink event jersey!

A fairly easy route for seasoned runners and a reasonably challenging one for the first timers, officials saw participants completing the race without much difficulties. And to top the icing of the cake, each participant who completes the route were given a finisher medal.

Race results for the top ten runners of the seven categories are as below: